Press Digest: Financial Times - June 10

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June 10 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
     
Headlines
     
Boots in talks over $10 billion sale as owners look to ditch IPO plan
     
VodafoneThree bids for TalkTalk consumer business  
     
Brussels orders Meta to open WhatsApp to rival AI agents
     
Airbus plans German-led alliance to replace doomed fighter jet 
     
Overview
     
The owners of Boots are in talks over a $10bn sale with bidders including the billionaire Weston family and Australian pharmacy group Sigma Healthcare SIG.AX, in a deal that would see the UK health and beauty retailer abandon plans for a London initial public offering.
     
VodafoneThree VOD.L has tabled a bid for the consumer operations of struggling rival TalkTalk, as the UK’s largest mobile operator looks to accelerate its expansion into home broadband.
     
The European Commission has ordered Meta META.O to restore access to WhatsApp for rival tech groups building AI assistants, arguing emergency action is needed to stop competition being harmed before a full antitrust investigation is completed.
     
A group of eight aerospace and defence companies led by Airbus AIR.PA are planning an alliance to develop a European alternative to the doomed next-generation Franco-German fighter jet.
     
     

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